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Topic: Hello from Batesville, Ms. (Read 1781 times)

Needing to get up and going with at least 1 hive this year. Not seeing the bees is very alarming to me and my family, so i decided to get started ASAP... So i am looking to find some bees... Hope to make many friends here as well..I am a total newBEE to this...Mike

Mike, welcome to our forum, so nice that you have found us. This will be a place where you can spend some great time, quality time that will allow you to learn about how to keep bees, we are an interested group of people that love to help. This will be a place where you can tell your stories and tales, and meet new friends. Stick around. So nice that you have noticed the lack of bees and that you want to bring bees to your area, beautiful. Have that most great and awesome day, health. Cindi

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There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold. The Arctic trails have their secret tales that would make your blood run cold. The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but the queerest they ever did see, what the night on the marge of Lake Lebarge, I cremated Sam McGee. Robert Service

Hoping to hook-up with Catfishbill, he is about 25 miles north of me..I sent him a message that i will help in any way i can, so i can learn from someone that has experience, and maybe he can help me get some Bees ;)

My Girls are on the Plane,,,, Arriving in AM :) Got a Russian Queen , Marked and Clipped, WISH ME LUCK....also got with catfishbill, found a new Bee Club just started , this month, 10 miles from me in Oxford, Ms. He is a very helpful fellow. Hope to meet him soon....Get ready to answer some ?, cause i am sure i will have many... Thanks for such a great place to meet friends, that share so much...So greatful i found Ya. :-D

Went really good for a Newbee... I actually got 2 packages, one for myself and another for a older guy i meet a week ago. He is 77 years young and had bees for years, until they left... He had about 6 hives then.... I noticed his hives from driving by his farm, and decided to stop and meet him, ended-up stay ing about 6 hours.. I helped him work on his sprayer for his peach trees, we went to town had lunch, and a really good day...I then told him i was going to get me some bees, he told me about when he had bees, and that they had left or died...He said he wished he had some more, so i told him i 'll get us some.....They arrived around 8:30 this morning, at 9 i was at his house helping put in his bees...(no suit for me) :(, all went well , i misted them with sugar water, Removed the Queen , an got the box ready for him to put the bees in... Then it happened........POP < POP< POP, and more POPS. I had to leave. I got stung above both Eyes 3 on left eyelid , 2 on right eye brow, 3 in front of right ear...Wow that hurt.. :'(...But all went well, he thought they were so gentle while i was working with him, he didn't even zip up his hood, so They got him on the cheeks as well. Made me feel a little better ( i got to laugh back at him).. So i borrowed his suit came home and installed my bees,,,,Watched the Girls most of the day, they were coming and going like crazy to the pan of sugar water i put out about 10 feet from the hive... ( i did put rocks in the pie pan for them to get on). at about 30 minutes before dark they seemed to all be coming back to the hive , only about 6 outside, seemed like the rest went to bed. I'll check on them in a couple days and keep ya posted...( i wish i had set up a video camera to show you what happened, it must have been pretty funny the way Mr Perkins laughed...Don't laugh to hard...